On behalf of public sector partners, we bring together children, teachers and parent to reduce the impact of grooming
Our ultimate aim is to reduce the number of children who become victims of violence, we do this by:
- Supporting violence prevention education in primary school.
- Providing teachers with evidence-based resources and enabling the delivery of best practice in hundreds of schools.
- Engaging thousands of children in educational activities to improve help seeking behaviour and bystander intervention.
An important part of our approach involves challenging the culture that labels a child as 'a grass' or 'a rat' if they ask an adult for help. We work with children to promote positive help seeking behaviour and we work with adults to develop active listening skills.
We believe that the best way to deliver preventative education is by capacity-building the teaching workforce. To do this we provide teachers with tools to challenge the culture that supports the exploitation of children. Alongside this we provide a full programme of teacher support; zoom-based training, video support and written materials.
Our approach is based on evidence and is designed help children develop positive help seeking behaviour and skills associated with bystander intervention
| “The (Ariel Trust) programmes had significant positive impacts on students’ knowledge and attitudes related to the topics covered, including knowledge on how to keep safe online, a strengthened understanding of grassing and grooming and who to reach out to for help.” |
“The ‘Send me a Selfie’ workshops, delivered by Ariel Trust, are all about empowering children, to challenge attitudes that we see played out in wider society. We want to get up stream and work with young children.” |
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Evaluation conducted by LJMU |
Emily Spurrell, Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner |
Ariel works with Violence Reduction Partnerships and local authorities to engage primary schools, supporting them to deliver an evidenced-based approach to violence reduction and embedding best practice on a sustainable basis.
We have a track record of engaging teachers, often the most difficult step. We then offer them access to online training, video support and access to our fully resourced websites. The resources all focus on short animations, which have been co-created with children and then produced by our award-winning animator.
We currently offer programmes, suitable for use at Key Stage 2, and responding to the following topics:
Gang-based grooming for criminal exploitation
Peer pressure and consent in teenage relationships
Grooming in relation to hate and violence extremism
The case studies below are designed to provide detailed information about various aspects of our work. If you would like to find out more or are interested in working with us, please contact us at admin@arieltrust.com
